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Tonight, we'll be reading an excerpt from A Voyage in the Dark in New England Fields and Woods,

written by Roland Evans Robinson in 1896.

Robinson was in his time, one of Vermont's best-known writers.

This collection of short essays follows New England's changing seasons and moods in all its natural beauty.

This particular selection is part of the late summer, early autumn time.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, to give you. Now take a few deep breaths. A voyage in the dark. A few days ago a friend who is kind and patient enough to encumber himself with the care of a

blind man and a boy took me and my 12 year old fishing. It was with a fresh realization of my deprivation

that I passed along the watery way once as familiar as the Doryard path, but now shouted for me in a gloom more

impenetrable than the blackness of the darkest night. I could only guess at the bends and reaches as the south wind blue on one

cheek or the other or on my back, only knowing where the channel draws near the shore, upon which the Indians encamped in the old days by the flutter of leaves overbearing the rustle of rushes.

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